Talent Acquisition Specialist, Operations & Manufacturing

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Symrise is a global supplier of fragrances, flavors, food, nutrition, and cosmetic ingredients. Its clients include manufacturers of perfumes, cosmetics, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals and producers of nutritional supplements and pet food.

Its sales of € 4.7 billion in the 2023 fiscal year make Symrise a leading global provider. Headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, the Group is represented by more than 100 locations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the United States and Latin America.

Symrise works with its clients to develop new ideas and market-ready concepts for products that form an integral part of everyday life. Economic success and corporate responsibility are inextricably linked as part of this process.

Your role

As a key member of the Talent Acquisition team, the Operations and Manufacturing Recruiter is responsible for planning and executing recruiting activities for non-exempt manufacturing professionals.

In this role you will be responsible for leading the sourcing and recruitment efforts for high volume recruiting needs for the designated region, across divisions. This role will build relationships and work closely with Hiring Managers to define sourcing strategies, gather and understand the position requirements to effectively identify talent that is aligned with the scope and responsibilities of the role.

When partnering with the hiring manager, you will serve as a primary source of recruitment advice, consultation and education on best practices to fill roles in the most efficient and effective way possible.

The function of this role is to identify qualified candidates and manage the process from position opening through offer acceptance. You will develop and execute progressive integrated recruitment solutions using multiple avenues including direct sourcing, social networking, industry networking, employee referrals, Internet sourcing, trade job fairs, targeted advertising, college and community outreach. You will manage internal and external job posting procedures, capturing applicant flow accurately and consistently leveraging the applicant tracking system.

You will utilize your influencing, interpersonal, selling and closing skills to encourage candidates to recognize Symrise as an Employer of Choice.

Skills And Responsibilities

• Source active and passive candidates from various resources, including but not limited to, direct sourcing, employee referrals, traditional media, job fairs, and internet job boards.
• Develop innovative marketing strategies to create brand awareness to target passive and active candidates.
• Manage full life cycle recruiting processes to include sourcing, engaging the candidate, interviewing and closing candidates.
• Build relationships with external partnerships to include community contacts, college officials and local professionals.
• Maintain and build stronger partnerships with manufacturing managers to understand their hiring needs to ensure staffing goals.
• Travel to manufacturing sites as needed and become a trusted partner with plant managers, production managers and on-site employees.
• Bachelor's Degree preferred, experience in lieu of degree will be considered.
• Minimum of three years of full life cycle recruiting experience in high-volume manufacturing or industrial recruiting.
• Fluent in using web-based recruiting tools (Talentlink and Work Day is a plus), including social media, job boards and applicant tracking tools along with the ability to effectively market positions to target qualified candidates.
• Experience working with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to source passive candidates to include cold calling and building relationships by phone. Building & executing local…